& Experiential Graphics
2025
Graphic Design · Editorial Design · Object Making · Book Making
An experimental publication and tool designed to reactivate visual and tactile perception within everyday routines. Instead of rejecting systems, the project introduces small gaps within them.
2025
Strategy · Visual Elements · Application · Package production · UXUI · AR
How can we lower the emotional wall that is in front of art?
A warm art appreciation guide that helps beginners focus on how they feel, turning passive viewing into a personal dialogue with the artwork. It offers the comforting message that there are no right or wrong answers, because there are things that only you can feel.
2025
Strategy · Experimental Typography · AI Art Direction · Application
How can a scar become your signature?
Second Skin is a fashion brand that uses kelp fibre bio-cloth to express personal identity and narrative through scars and marks. We redefine bodily ‘imperfections’ as symbols of individuality and beauty, challenging the unrealistic standards imposed by the traditional fashion industry.
2024
Strategy · Visual Elements · Application · UXUI
Zextr is a premium UAM (Urban Air Mobility) brand for advanced urban air transport. It connects the entire journey, from booking to destination, with exclusive member benefits for urban professionals.
2025
Graphic Design · Editorial Design · AI Art Direction · Riso Printing
What if small talk wasn't small at all?
This project reframes small talk, highlighting its overlooked value.
By placing fleeting, lighthearted words within formal visual structures,
it questions communication norms and reintroduces spontaneity and warmth into a system focused on clarity and efficiency
2025
Visual Elements · Typography · Layout Design
Graphic elements development for an elegant and grotesque lookbook. Directed the typography, decorative graphics, layout, and overall visual direction for a fashion lookbook that expresses imperfection and destructiveness with elegance. The graphic elements embody a grotesque yet restrained sense of beauty, revealing refined sophistication within distortion and chaos.
2021-2023
Visual Elements · Metaverse Space Design · Marketing Support
Designing the metaverse company Ovice with illustrative branding, metaverse space creation, and marketing support.
Within two years, Ovice raised a Series B.
2026
Always open to collaborations and projects driven by curiosity and play!
Layer and Ply
Designer
Sohee Chae
Contact
chaesh0524@gmail.com
@layerandply
@soreevl
Between letting go and staying within the system,
there is a space where new possibilities emerge.
At layerandply, we craft poetic brand design and experiential graphics shaped through attentive observation, empathetic listening, and layered meaning.
Royal College of Art
MA Visual Communication
2025
Hanyang University
BFA Communication Design
2024
Goldsmiths, University of London
Design Summer School
2019
It’s Nice That’s Ones To Watch
2025
K-Design Award
Winner
2024
Scope
Graphic Design
Brand Identity
Research
Typography
Editorial Design
Application
Object making
Art Direction
Creative Strategy
Social Media Content
Packaging
Website Design